#2,879

The victims of the most serious individual and social catastrophes are often not even aware: individuals become brutish, societies become degraded, unawares.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 461

#2,532

Humanity is not cured of its diseases except by means of catastrophes that decimate it.
Man has never known how to renounce at the right time.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 407

#2,436

Man already possesses enough power that no catastrophe is improbable.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 392

#2,360

A noble society does not wait for catastrophes to discipline it before it disciplines itself.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 382

#1,966

What is called progress are preparations for a catastrophe.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 320

#1,331

As a consequence of technological advances, the old prophets of catastrophes are giving way to the witnesses of catastrophes that were already predicted.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 229

#1,039

Lack of imagination saves a people from many catastrophes.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 185

#585

For modern man catastrophes are not a lesson, but insults from the universe.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 110

#540

Man unleashes catastrophes when he insists on making coherent the contradictory evidences among which he lives.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 103